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Welcome to the Application Performance Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from APM experts. This Blog provides insights into the Application Performance Management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

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Welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy home! This is your centralised home for all your monitoring needs!! Our aim at the Academy is simple....We want to share our daily hands on product knowledge, directly with you! We encourage you to participate and become part of our social community Have all of the latest information and content delivered straight to your social feeds!! No more searching through web pages looking for the latest... [More]

Announcing IBM Monitoring v8.1 - the next generation of Application-Aware infrastructure monitoring solution that simplifies the life for IT Ops. With a single end to end view of metrics and logs/errors collected across the application stack, IT operators can detect problems and troubleshoot in the context of the application always. They no longer need to struggle to understand which component belongs to which application or which application's performance will be impacted due to a failed infrastructure component. It is able to monitor any... [More]

On the forth installment of the SPUFI series, we look at our third "use case". This blog will show you how to extract key information via the command line from your TEMS relating to which agents are assigned to which MSL (Managed system list). This is a very powerful way to obtain great information from your TEMS If you missed part one on how to use the tool here is a quick link: -----> Link to blog one in the SPUFI serie s... [More]

Survival Guide for a Data Center Power Shutdown Imagine you are running a Data Center (DC) housing critical applications and solutions. Now Imagine that you are told that this DC has to sustain an extended power outage. The big question for all involved is "how much restful sleep can I expect until the DC is back online?" What is the impact of an improperly executed DC shutdown? Failure to shutdown a DC gracefully can lead to severe impact - resulting in downtime, a loss of revenue while creating... [More]

Breaking down the Silos by simplifying application monitoring One of the biggest drawbacks in IT operations is that we work in silos , with loads of attempts made to connect functional departments before but it seems like very little progress has been made. With applications being the lifeblood of businesses, it is imperative that there is a common bridge between departments to deliver fast, effective and agile solutions. But the fact is that we work in a distributed tiered environment and with these walls around functions and... [More]

I like those great dinner-in-minutes recipes. They're easy to follow and you get a great reward at the end. In the same spirit, we created a tutorial for IBM Performance Management on Cloud: easy, quick, and rewarding. You can see the KPIs for your managed system in minutes. When I tried it, I instantly saw that my system was continually using too much memory. Time to add a pinch more. After registering for a Performance Management trial or paid subscription on IBM Service Engage , you're ready to go. Gather your ingredients :... [More]

As ITM 6.3 fix pack 3 has just been released, I know many of you will be planning upgrades in the near future. Here are a few tips and features that can really improve the speed, capacity usage and capabilities of warehousing in ITM. There is even a neat little feature to send data directly to analytics tools outside of the warehouse entirely, thus offsetting load on your database (win, win). This blog is tacking a slightly different tact to the how to/deep dive information I usually post, but I feel this information if worth... [More]

This "Nuggets of Knowledge" is a series of blogs that are all aimed at hints and tips to maximise the use and value you can get from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) product suite. Below is a full list of my blogs for easy navigation and future reference. All new blogs will also be added to this post, so feel free to bookmark it so you don't miss any new additions. Please feel free to contact/follow me, all my social contact links are at the bottom of the page I welcome sugestions for content if... [More]

On the latest installment of the series, this nugget (blog) will show you how to find the required TEMS database schema so you can extract key information directly from your TEMS. This information is great for speeding up environment healthchecks, dumping large amounts of data quickly outside the GUI, etc. OVERALL GOAL: For you to be able to extract the TEMS database schema directly from your TEMS machine. You will then be able to build your own SQL SELECT statements to extract information from the TEMS at will. This... [More]